Bodhi's Blogs

In this life we were sent to learn many lessons,
On hw to make mistakes gracefully,
How to live out our passions with serenity
How to appreciate beauty yet know it will not last
How to live and riches and glory without owning and being greedy,
That friendships are the world's greatest treasures,
That love is what makes us beyond measure,
The Reality is always greater than what our minds can conceive
That giving more of ourselves is the way that we can receive,
That money cannot buy the most important things in life,
That good relationships are the ones that really get us by,
That life will end whether we like it or not,
And so live now and give it your best shot.

Our spirits are designed to do good and perfect doing good. The necessity to do good in this world of tangible reality is to perfect the play of consciousness upon manifest creation. Only then can we transcend the world...by perfecting it. Sometimes i think that the created order must necessarily be in the dualist mode. Or else the ten thousand things will not exist in its diversity. The differentiation and the dualism of the ONE thus includes the mixing of the good and evil, the subject and the object, the i and the other and so on and so forth creating the many from the ONE. Only in the paradox of high consciousness will the dualism of the good and evil be resolved into illusion and push the good out of evil, perfect the process in order to transcend it. This way genuine compassion and detachment are combined in a paradox and be really effective.:smile:

:smile:Although the inevitability of death is undeniable, i don't think that this was the original design. I believe the intent was simple--to reflect perfection in all things especially in gross matter. The narrowing of our perceptual abilities to the point of disconnection is a result of our focusing on the fragmentary nature of things and limiting our sensitivity to the five senses alone. The gift of the freedom of choice is not tantamount to disconnection. In fact, disconnection is artificial because the lure of our senses is so great that we become blind and deaf to our ancient connection which was never removed in the first place. We have larger perceptual abilities that can receive directly from the Source but we have chosen to rely only on the senses, on materiality, on reason, and so therefore we are the ones who have limited ourselves to a dimension where death becomes inevitable. Just as our disconnection is artificial, so therefore is our death artificial.:wink:

:smile:If our experience with Reality is indirect and second hand and only a recollection of what has been arranged by our senses, what does it make of the world then? Is it merely an illusion that must not be taken seriously? What about history, injustice, human life? Do we just consider them as fragments of one’s imagination? This life, this body, this earth, is important in the sense that this is the fullest manifestation of matter, consciousness, and spirit. Our task and the intent of the universe is to manifest fully in this life the beauty and perfection of all creation. And this is the ultimate goal of the historical process—the perfection of evolution or the evolution of perfection. This is why humanity has been given the power to seek and find no rest; to shape life and to create it, to complete and to fulfill all things… Most of the time we do not act out of harmony—but this is a consequence of the narrowness of our perceptual abilities that is attached to gross matter and raw survival and blind to the eternal urging of the great “beyond”. This is what we call the force, the spirit behind the evolutionary process. And because we have placed in matter and flesh our utmost values and concerns, death becomes an inevitable consequence. For all that lives must die. All matter has to be transformed one way or another.